Is doing Youtube at a business scale generally a terrible idea? (MrBeast, LinusTechTips etc)

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You're basically still a Youtube employee at the end of the day. If something happened to Youtube your entire business would be worthless. Yes I know they do merch but that can't support an entire company and even then the business is still dependant on 3rd party sponsorship deals. I kinda feel this whole "capitalistic" strategy of Youtube isn't as good a fit as home grown simple to make content
 
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Yes.

My reasoning is super long and hard to put into words properly, but a short version

You basically lose your soul, and depending on how you do it, you have to submit to the "correct" political opinions and things to say. You immediately become restricted on what you can show in the video, title, thumbnail, and what you can say cuz of YouTube's TOS and sensitive monetary system where even saying "dead" or "fuck" a few times can remove your cash flow instantly

God forbid you're some fucking woman or some kind of weird png-tuber / v-tuber. the parasocial aspect sucks for normal "creators" but instantly worsens for the crossed arm anime people lmfao.
 
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I don't know because I have never done it. A lot of people try and fail though. You can always tell when they rage quit YouTube after spamming videos multiple times a week. One of the channels I was subscribed to just did this. He took all the videos down and put up one video explaining why. He basically did the rage quit thing. Though with less rage at least in the video. He managed to get 70,000 subscribers. It just wasn't enough. People can't spend hours a day working on videos and hold down their regular job as well. Not for very long anyway. Most of the really big YouTubers have been on YouTube for years now. Some probably close to a decade.

The days of people hopping on YouTube and getting famous are over. A lot of people still have YouTube star as an occupation they want though. But it's just not there anymore. Most of them burn out pretty quick and become nobodies. YouTube tightly controls who you see and who you don't now. They like to push a lot of mainstream content like shit from Jimmy Kimmel Stephen Colbert and so on. It's even worse if you don't have a YouTube account. At least with a YouTube account you can keep that shit out of your sight. But YouTube will try to sneak it in once in a while. But most people are watching YouTube without an account, so they are getting all the mainstream garbage shoved in their faces.
 
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I think if you've got enough cash locked away for yourself from whatever bullshit you were doing when you first got a crowd watching you sure fuck it why not.

Mr beast was some shitty gaming youtuber, Linus was a shitty unboxing youtuber. They both had a decent following (and probably profit) before they sunk in some profit to up production values. If either of them had failed it probably wouldn't have been a big deal to scale back for a few months to recoup loses.

It would probably be a terrible idea to start off that way unless you had connections.
 
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Honestly in the end if you don'tbecome the HIP NEW THING you're screwed for earning money on youtube regardless. Kinda pointless to consider it a real job and even then you have to tread extra careful if you do choose it. One single wrongdoing and you're fucked.
 
It would be something to do if you’re bored with life at the moment.
 
Targeted Individual said:
Youtube should have never offered money to youtubers.
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Isn't Youtube still not profitable? Every other site that tries to directly compete fails because a platform that supplies infinite free video uploading of high quality to any user with an email and phone number is just a terrible business model, especially adding in monetary incentives to said users if they get enough views. It's just useful to keep around to modify the greater narrative.
 
Seems like an awful idea, to be honest. You're essentially beholden both to a corp and the court of public opinion, both of which can be mercurial at best.
 
vomitusdeux said:
You can, but it's soul crushing and you have to have a very specific kind of personality.
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basically this, if you're the kind of soulless motherfucker who has enough ambition and cold narcissism to climb the ladder and grind, you can really stand up a media empire off of the platform. it's by far the easiest way to break into the industry, but also one of the more chaotic and risky ones.

that said, youtube media people are categorically cancerous pieces of shit. so while it may be a workable idea individually, it's definitely a terrible idea societally.
 
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Targeted Individual said:
Youtube should have never offered money to youtubers.
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The whole idea of making ad money and everything on YouTube is one of the things that ruined YouTube. Suddenly everyone wanted to make money with their "content" no matter how shitty and or lazy it was. That's why you find shit on YouTube these days where some "incel" takes a bunch of clips of women whining about men from Tik Tok or even YouTube and puts them in their videos where all they do is make fun of the dumb bitch. Then they upload it and stick ads in it that pop up evet 2 fucking minutes. It's the laziest shit I have ever seen.

It basically brought on the censorship of YouTube. The first wave of censorship was brought on by the ads. Some Journo fag was sitting around calling all the known companies with ads featured on YouTube asking them if they supported whatever content they saw the ad featured in. This could have been something of the extreme right leaning political variety or something in support of some dune coon terrorist faction. The corpos freaks out and started pulling ads and YouTube started censoring shit.
vomitusdeux said:
You can, but it's soul crushing and you have to have a very specific kind of personality. Make content you care about instead of trying to get famous and you might enjoy yourself, and add to the less cancerous side of youtube.
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Not everyone has the ability to cut it as a YouTube celebrity. Yes, a certain type of personality is needed. But even then, there is so much competition out there it would still be hard. You want to make a channel bitching about politics? YouTube is full of them. You better be doing something really special.
Toolbox said:
Isn't Youtube still not profitable? Every other site that tries to directly compete fails because a platform that supplies infinite free video uploading of high quality to any user with an email and phone number is just a terrible business model, especially adding in monetary incentives to said users if they get enough views. It's just useful to keep around to modify the greater narrative.
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YouTube has never made a profit from what I know. In the past that was true. There were some competitors to YouTube like Daily Motion and they just never took off. But things are changing a bit. You have stuff like Rumble Odysee and Bit Chute. Though it seems Rumble is doing better than the other two. I hardly ever use Odysee or Bit Chute. Bit Chute is mostly filled with Boomer tier conspiritard garbage and I haven't used Odysee in a while. I do use Rumble a bit more though. But I still mostly use YouTube. If anyone wants to try and start up a channel and gain any kind of success you would probably better off trying Rumble than attempting it on YouTube these days.
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basically this, if you're the kind of soulless motherfucker who has enough ambition and cold narcissism to climb the ladder and grind, you can really stand up a media empire off of the platform. it's by far the easiest way to break into the industry, but also one of the more chaotic and risky ones.

that said, youtube media people are categorically cancerous pieces of shit. so while it may be a workable idea individually, it's definitely a terrible idea societally.
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Not so much anymore. Like I said in previous posts the market is saturated. You have to be doing something unique and there is only so many different ways you can do the same shit as everyone else. You could end up being a "pranker" where you run around and annoy or bother people for views.
 
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Doing any sort of online content creation as a primary source of income as a bad idea... unless you can make millions of dollars in a few years. It's basically gambling. I know someone who makes their primary income off online content. After a decade of 80-hour work weeks, he was finally making about 60k before taxes and his income stream has already fallen in two years from that peak to about 50k. Imagine putting that much time and effort into anything else, you'd probably be doing better than that and you'd have marketable skills and business connections. He also is depressed, despises his fans (who are basically all children or man-children), and would probably stop doing it if he had any other options. But he doesn't.

And if you can make that much money, then you should get in, get that bag, and get out before the mob turns on you or you lose relevance. But that requires you to understand your luck and have some business acumen and understanding of the value of time, effort, and money. If you had those things then why would you be betting on an algorithm-driven, quantity-over-quality, content-saturated place like Youtube or just about any other online platform?
 
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MrTroll said:
I have it on good authority that MrBeast (net worth: $500 million) deeply regrets his poor career choices and wishes he was making 50,000 a year instead.
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nah he does make videos just for the memes.

he spends all of his profit back into the video.

also content creation itself... the amount time watsed and danger of being cancelled by pedos and negroes
 
It's generally a bad idea. Even if you climb above the pile and get millions of views, you will end up recruited by a giga-jew firm like Night Talent and become a glorified prostitute. MrBeast is affiliated with them for example and essentially provide all the cash to create his videos.
 
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